ice_remove_mac(9)

💅 NAME

okay so bestie, this is ice_remove_mac(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and it is literally the function that does one thing: remove a MAC address based filter rule ✨.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ice_remove_mac (struct ice_hw *hw , struct list_head *m_list );

🧾 ARGUMENTS 🧾

• hw — pointer to the hardware structure 💻.
• m_list — list of MAC addresses and forwarding information 🧵.

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

This function removes either a MAC filter rule or a specific VSI from a VSI list for a multicast MAC address 🎯.

It returns -ENOENT if a given entry was not added by ice_add_mac. Caller should be aware that this call will only work if all the entries passed into m_list were added previously. It will not attempt to do a partial remove of entries that were found 🚨.

fr fr, this is not a “remove whatever you can find” situation — the whole list needs to have been added before, or it bails with -ENOENT 💀.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file: ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice/ice_switch.c 👀
• ice_init_def_sw_recp(9), ice_aq_get_sw_cfg(9), ice_aq_add_vsi(9), ice_aq_free_vsi(9), ice_aq_update_vsi(9), ice_is_vsi_valid(9), ice_get_hw_vsi_num(9), ice_get_vsi_ctx(9)
• ice_save_vsi_ctx(9), ice_clear_vsi_q_ctx(9), ice_clear_vsi_ctx(9), ice_clear_all_vsi_ctx(9), ice_add_vsi(9), ice_free_vsi(9), ice_update_vsi(9), ice_cfg_rdma_fltr(9)
• ice_aq_alloc_free_vsi_list(9), ice_aq_sw_rules(9), ice_aq_add_recipe(9), ice_aq_get_recipe(9), ice_update_recipe_lkup_idx(9), ice_aq_map_recipe_to_profile(9), ice_aq_get_recipe_to_profile(9), ice_init_chk_recipe_reuse_support(9)
• ice_alloc_recipe(9), ice_free_recipe_res(9), ice_release_recipe_res(9), ice_get_recp_to_prof_map(9), ice_get_recp_frm_fw(9), ice_fill_sw_info(9), ice_fill_eth_hdr(9), ice_fill_sw_rule(9)
• ice_add_marker_act(9), ice_create_vsi_list_map(9), ice_update_vsi_list_rule(9), ice_create_vsi_list_rule(9), ice_create_pkt_fwd_rule(9), ice_update_pkt_fwd_rule(9), ice_update_sw_rule_bridge_mode(9), ice_add_update_vsi_list(9)
• ice_find_rule_entry(9), ice_find_vsi_list_entry(9), ice_add_rule_internal(9), ice_remove_vsi_list_rule(9), ice_rem_update_vsi_list(9), ice_remove_rule_internal(9), ice_vlan_fltr_exist(9), ice_add_mac(9)
• ice_add_vlan_internal(9), ice_add_vlan(9), ice_add_eth_mac(9), ice_remove_eth_mac(9), ice_rem_sw_rule_info(9), ice_rem_adv_rule_info(9), ice_cfg_dflt_vsi(9), ice_vsi_uses_fltr(9)
• ice_check_if_dflt_vsi(9), ice_remove_vlan(9), ice_add_entry_to_vsi_fltr_list(9), ice_add_to_vsi_fltr_list(9), ice_determine_promisc_mask(9), ice_remove_promisc(9), ice_clear_vsi_promisc(9), ice_set_vsi_promisc(9)
• ice_set_vlan_vsi_promisc(9), ice_remove_vsi_lkup_fltr(9), ice_remove_vsi_fltr(9), ice_alloc_res_cntr(9), ice_free_res_cntr(9), ice_share_res(9), ice_find_recp(9), ice_change_proto_id_to_dvm(9)
• ice_prot_type_to_id(9), ice_fill_valid_words(9), ice_fill_fv_word_index(9), ice_find_free_recp_res_idx(9), ice_calc_recp_cnt(9), ice_add_sw_recipe(9), ice_subscribe_recipe(9), ice_subscribable_recp_shared(9)
• ice_add_adv_recipe(9), ice_dummy_packet_add_vlan(9), ice_find_dummy_packet(9), ice_fill_adv_dummy_packet(9), ice_fill_adv_packet_tun(9), ice_fill_adv_packet_vlan(9), ice_find_adv_rule_entry(9), ice_adv_add_update_vsi_list(9)
• ice_add_adv_rule(9), ice_replay_vsi_fltr(9), ice_adv_rem_update_vsi_list(9), ice_rem_adv_rule(9), ice_rem_adv_rule_by_id(9), ice_replay_vsi_adv_rule(9), ice_replay_vsi_all_fltr(9), ice_rm_all_sw_replay_rule_info(9)

💌 cute sign-off: this cutie comes from the Kernel API Manual, source/version ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ice, dated October 2026 — that’s the whole vibe, no cap 🫶.